History of the Americas
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- The English made their first permanent settlement in ________________ in 1607.
- The result of misplaced loyalty by colonists was raising political and economic tensions between an agricultural South dependent on ___________ labor and a more ______________ north.
- The free open land that had been available and suitable for settlement was known as the __________ and was now fully settled
- The Spanish came to the New World looking for ________________ and other tresures.
- In 1565 the Spanish settled in ________________, the oldest permanent European settlement in the United States.
- _____________ is the movement of peoples.
- The colonists protests led to the ________________ (1775-1783) and the founding of the United States of America.
- The _____________ came to the New World looking for fisheries and fur trade.
- The United States is the third largest nation in ____________ and _____________ in the world.
- The United States occupies ______________ of the land area of North America.
- When Europeans started to explore what they called the "____________" the ___________ arrived first.
- ______________ is the movement of people going into a country.
- The ______________ people were descendants of the ____________ nomads who migrated to the United States 13,000 years ago.
- _______________ is also the movement of people leaving a country.
- demoralized Southern civilians and was used by Southerners as an example of Northern tyranny
- granted 160 acres of public land to settlers who would work the land for five years
- turned the tide of the presidential election of 1864 between Lincoln and McClellan
- involved the surrender of the Confederacy and the end of the war
- was Robert E. Lee's last significant victory but resulted in Stonewall Jackson's death
- allowed formerly enslaved African Americans to work as laborers or soldiers in the Union